Frequently Asked Questions

In a state regulated electricity market, end users can purchase power from only one licensed provider at prices set by EWRC . Prices in this market are significantly higher than those on the free market and are determined by the Energy and Water Regulation Commission (EWRC ).

All household and non-household customers, connected to the low voltage receive electric power on this market.

All business customers (companies) with connected power over 100 kWh should join and benefit from the low prices on the open market. In case you have not done so, you are being supplied by the so-called. providers of last resort (PLR) at a price significantly higher than that on the free market.The role of DPI is played by the electricity distribution companies (EDC).

In our monthly bill for electricity are included:

• the price of consumed active electric energy (higher than that on the free market and defined by EWRC ) – paid to the provider end supplier or the provider of last resort
• balancing of the energy supply system – paid to the provider end supplier (the price is determined by EWRC )
• balancing of the energy distribution system – paid to one of the four EDCs in the country depending on the location of the facility (the price is determined by EWRC )
• duty if the client is not an individual – paid to the State via the EDCs (the price is determined by the state through the Ministry of Finance and National Revenue Agency)
• transmission over the distribution network paid to the relevant EDC (the price is determined by EWRC )
• access to the distribution network – paid to the relevant EDC (the price is determined by EWRC and is due on the provided power to the facility, not its actual consumption)
• transmission and access to/ through the grid – paid to ESO via the corresponding EDC (the price is determined by EWRC )
• surcharge on the provided amount of reactive power according to the Ordinance for regulating the prices of electricity (ORPE) – paid to the appropriate EDC and determined in accordance with Article 7 ; ORPE
• VAT – paid to the State via the respective EDC.

All customers on the open market participate as a collective client, part of the group of the supplier who makes predictions. Participation in a common group for predicting consumption ensures customers lower costs for balancing as deviations of individual group members are compensating each other.

Balancing costs are always there, but in a regulated market these are calculated in the price of energy. Now, in a liberalized market and with the existence of more merchants and balancing groups, each participant bears the costs according to their forecasts. Therefore, the prices for balancing the various vendors are different.

In order to participate on the liberalized market the facility/ies of the end users need to be registered in the ESO. See the three steps required to register on the free market -> ТУК.

• Reactive power – it is that part of the total energy other than the active energy, necessary for the functioning of consumers, including design elements such as transformers, inductors, motors or condensers, called reactive elements. Reactive energy creates the typical for this type of equipment variable magnetic or electric fields.
• Impact on the energy system – the transfer of reactive power causes an increase in the losses of active energy and reducing throughput of the distribution networks. This in turn affects the stability of the energy system and the quality of supplied electricity.
• The power factor (cos φ) – who figured it out and what does it mean? The power factor is a value for evaluating the ratio between active power and apparent power in electrical networks for acute current (AC). Its value ranges between 0 and 1.
  When a consumer only contains active elements such as incandescent lamps, heaters, ovens, cookers etc., the full power is equal to the active power and the power factor in the network is equal to 1.
  In case of consumers with reactive elements, part of the full power provides reactive power required for their work and the ratio between active power and apparent power becomes less than 1.
  For the energy system, power grids with power factor above 0 9 are considered highly effective.